A large butte in northeastern Wyoming, Devils Tower was established as the first United States National Monument in 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt. About 867 feet from summit to base, the climax of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind was set at the monument.

Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 165 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 4.6081 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.798).
An average of 8.3392 4+-time champions (standard deviation 2.2261).

An early cutoff took place 29.855% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).

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I like clues that give you more than one way to figure out the correct response, like today’s FJ! You can either be a movie buff (which is how I got it), or be into national monument history, or maybe both! (Not me though…did not know Devil’s Tower was our first National monument.)That’s another thing I like about the game…learning stuff I didn’t know. I love Jeopardy!!

Here’s some more information. It was supposed to be called Devil’s Tower but the person who typed the document spelled it without the apostrophe & no one caught the error until it was too late. I visited it in 2010.

… and a bit of further info. In 1980 the Department of the Interior published a policy about U.S. geography place names doing away with possessive apostrophes except for five places. Martha’s Vineyard is the best known of the five that kept an apostrophe.

Pikes Peak, Harpers Ferry, Devils Tower, Longs Peak, Woods Hole, Johnsons Corner, Smiths Crossing, and thousands of others that were named after people or things lost their apostrophes. New place names would require a waiver to have an apostrophe.

It made mapmakers, signmakers, and the U.S. Postal Service much happier. The Post Office really dislikes punctuation in addresses.

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